Timeline of Significant Events
21 STCENTURY2001: Al-Qaida terrorists launch attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11.
The United States leads a coalition invasion of Afghanistan to root out Al-Qaida on October 7.
2003: The United States commences attacks against Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq on March 20.
2008: Kosovo declares independence on February 17.
Russia enters breakaway region of South Ossetia in Georgia on August 8, later granting recognition to it and another rest-
less province, Abkhazia, on August 26, following the capture of strategic Georgian positions and infrastructure that month.
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